Kalanidhi Narayanan (fondly called as Maami) used to visit Dubai to see
her son. I had moved to Dubai with my husband Amaresh. I had heard about
and watched many of Maami’s abhinaya. Through Deepa Ganesh, (another
disciple of Kalanidhi Narayanan) I got to know that Maami was conducting
an abhinaya workshop. Though it was a 2 hour drive (one way) to Maami’s
house, I didn’t want to lose the opportunity to learn from the great
veteran.
Read the tribute in the site
Read the tribute in the site
Manjula's tribute to Kalanidhi Maami. Appreciate her genuine love regard of Maami whom we all loved and admired.
ReplyDeleteManjula has of course learned Padams from Maami. When students mention that they are disciples of a particular teacher and learned Abhinaya from Maami, it sounds a bit odd, as though the teachers do not teach Abhinaya. We do teach in depth abhinaya while teaching the repertoire.
I think, they may claim or add to their credit having learned few 'Padams from Maami. But total credit for a student's abhinaya proves cannot be accredited to Maami alone. or the disciples could say in their bio data that they had the privilege of learning a few Abhinaya padams from Kalanidhi Maami.
Naatyaachaarya V.P.Dhananjayan